A potentially hazardous asteroid roughly the size of an aircraft carrier is due to pass within 2.8 million miles (3.5 million ...

A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, creating ... Space Telescope captured images of the asteroid with two ...

When the image was taken, YR4 was reportedly around 37 million miles from Earth ... size of Washington, as seen in chilling animations taking off online. The asteroid also has a 0.3% chance of ...

This image made ... motion of asteroid 2024 YR4 over about one hour on Dec. 27. (ATLAS / University of Hawaii / NASA) The chances that an asteroid, known as 2024 YR4, could hit Earth in seven ...

An asteroid the “size of a football stadium” is moving at a fast pace toward Earth and will be visible via livestream in the early morning hours of Wednesday, December 4, when it makes its ...

Called 2024 YR4, the near-Earth asteroid initially carried a 1% chance of hitting land when NASA and ... Agency's Planetary Defence Office. "The size of the Earth — which is inside the ...

The chances that a space rock could hit Earth in less than a decade just went up slightly, according to NASA scientists. The asteroid 2024 ... program to evaluate its size." Even if it does ...

PASADENA, California — Recently discovered asteroid ... size to the asteroid, but only about 2%, or 12,000, have been found, according to the European Space Agency. "Tiny asteroids do hit the ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto) …Don’t look up. Astronomers say there is a 2.3% chance an asteroid nearly as big as the Statue of Liberty will smash into the Earth in 2032. The odds of this big old ...

The chances that an asteroid, known as 2024 YR4, could hit Earth in seven years have fluctuated recently, but experts aren’t preparing for the worst yet. At the end of 2024, a NASA-funded ...